Illustrator Alison Dubois takes on Gauguin and Matisse, and wins

Alison Dubois is a San Francisco-based illustrator who channels all of the vitamin D from her native temperate climate into her work. Take After, for example, a collection of re-creations of works by great masters, including Henri Matisse, Peter Doig and a handful of Paul Gauguins. Her drawings are rendered in felt tip and dominated by primary colours, and looking at them for too long feels something like consuming a bottle of Sunny D via an IV drip.

Alison’s figures feel wise in spite of the childlike naiveté with which they were created, though maintaining some of the intent of their original creators in the furrow of a brow or a hunched back. Fortunately for us, collective publishing press Tiny Splendor had the good sense to print the lot in book form and send it out for the world to see, and we’re mighty glad they did. No doubt Matisse, Doig and Gauguin would be too.